Bikram Yoga: The Guru Behind Hot Yoga Shows the Way to Radiant Health and Personal Fulfillment

Bikram Yoga: The Guru Behind Hot Yoga Shows the Way to Radiant Health and Personal Fulfillment

Bikram, the "hot yoga" program, has been heating up the yoga world lately, and its founder probably has something to do with it: The outspoken, dramatic, and always controversial Bikram Choudhury has garnered a lot of attention with his version of hatha yoga that some yogis think unorthodox: In his classes, students are stuck in a room heated to at least 105 degrees doing a structured program of 26 asanas with a sergeant-like instructor, and they love it. With his take-no-prisoners philosophy, Bikram describes how the program can reap great medical, physical, and spiritual benefits - the poses work out every part of the body, all of which can help alleviate many common ailments, from asthma to back pain. (Photographs accompany each pose.) In addition, the book offers the best ways to incorporate eastern philosophy into a western lifestyle and tips on how yoga can cultivate "a union between body and spirit."

About the author:Bikram Choudhury, who first won the National India Yoga Competition at the age of eleven, is an extremely charismatic teacher with a no-compromise attitude. He teaches his exclusive style of Hatha yoga at his school in Beverly Hills, and there are more than 700 Bikram yoga studios worldwide.

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Bikram Choudhury, who first won the National India Yoga Competition at the age of eleven, is an extremely charismatic teacher with a no-compromise attitude. He teaches his exclusive style of Hatha yoga at his school in Beverly Hills, and there are more than 700 Bikram yoga studios worldwide.